The Polis — David Israel

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• The real meaning of conservative
  2026-10-29 (21,864 chars) • MD Part 1 • MD Part 2 • MD Part 3 • MD Part 4
• Sure I'm forced to strawman you since you haven't stated a single policy or concrete idea.
  2026-10-23 (715 chars) • MD Part 1
• Is the god of productivity dead?
  2026-10-19 (7,982 chars) • MD Part 1
• We're definitely not on the same side.
  2026-10-16 (677 chars) • MD Part 1
• Is this like if you throw enough nonsense logic at the wall something will stick? Okay
  2026-10-16 (1,026 chars) • MD Part 1
• Are you even slightly familiar with American history?
  2026-10-16 (1,669 chars) • MD Part 1
• Again no evidence just hyperbole.
  2026-10-13 (752 chars) • MD Part 1
• Why AI is a nothing burger — it’s the writing stupid
  2026-10-10 (7,766 chars) • MD Part 1
• Divisionmaxxing
  2026-10-01 (11,427 chars) • MD Part 1 • MD Part 2
• We’re using AI all wrong
  2026-09-10 (5,335 chars) • MD Part 1
• Can we at least stop pretending we have an operational democratic system?
  2026-08-28 (10,390 chars) • MD Part 1 • MD Part 2
• Why idiotic drill baby drill doesn’t work
  2026-07-29 (8,267 chars) • MD Part 1 • MD Part 2
• Norms and rules only matter if they can survive being tested
  2026-07-21 (5,138 chars) • MD Part 1
• I have a blog on it but not linking it here might be bad etiquette.
  2026-07-11 (1,220 chars) • MD Part 1
• There is no middle way
  2026-07-05 (7,064 chars) • MD Part 1
• People keep talking about how great a coder AI is as if bespoke apps everywhere is a business model.
  2026-07-02 (698 chars) • MD Part 1
• The Four Apologists of Tech Bullshit
  2026-06-29 (1,063 chars) • MD Part 1
• High pay over the future of humanity?
  2026-06-28 (7,679 chars) • MD Part 1
• This is really well put and get's to the heart of Obama's politics.
  2026-06-26 (1,219 chars) • MD Part 1
• Read this speech https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2011/12/06/remarks-president-
  2026-06-26 (2,208 chars) • MD Part 1
• I don't think FDR's New Deal, which cut out non-whites and women from the deal - see welfare…
  2026-06-26 (770 chars) • MD Part 1
• Correct me if I'm wrong but I can't find anything on those reading lists that really challenges the…
  2026-06-26 (1,081 chars) • MD Part 1
• Baldwin and The British East India Company - real complaints but also distant past.
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• The try before you buy has been a thing for many, many years.
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• Performing guilt for racism was the very least someone benefiting from it could do, but apparently…
  2026-06-25 (790 chars) • MD Part 1
• None but he's a Senior Fellow at Stanford University's Hoover Institution.
  2026-06-25 (1,703 chars) • MD Part 1
• It has to have been before he was elected if it happened.
  2026-06-25 (1,549 chars) • MD Part 1
• In the mind of MAGA
  2026-06-24 (5,965 chars) • MD Part 1
• Talking with you is making me more anti-semitic and I'm Jewish.
  2026-06-20 (784 chars) • MD Part 1
• Just a reminder — Trump is not our first predator president
  2026-06-16 (9,026 chars) • MD Part 1 • MD Part 2
• Economics is not a science
  2026-06-13 (11,084 chars) • MD Part 1 • MD Part 2
• Grievance politics are center stage all over the world.
  2026-06-10 (2,002 chars) • MD Part 1
• Educational gates in California
  2026-06-06 (3,889 chars) • MD Part 1
• Again basic logic:
  2026-06-06 (1,151 chars) • MD Part 1
• Let me summarize the article because it is a bit all over the place:
  2026-06-03 (2,029 chars) • MD Part 1
• The real problem with liberalism
  2026-05-29 (7,374 chars) • MD Part 1
• The Federation is post capitalism but only by leaning very heavily into hierarchy.
  2026-05-25 (728 chars) • MD Part 1
• Greg LOLing doesn't prove anything about Prop.
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• Do Americans lack the brain hardware necessary to run a democracy?
  2026-05-20 (13,903 chars) • MD Part 1 • MD Part 2
• "I do not know the process of rationalization he uses for his opinions, but those opinions are…
  2026-05-20 (766 chars) • MD Part 1
• Are impoverished Americans a caste?
  2026-05-15 (6,858 chars) • MD Part 1
• The childbirth crisis being among educated women is something almost everyone is saying - not that…
  2026-05-13 (1,259 chars) • MD Part 1
• Uggh so in your mind if someone poor with the "right culture" escapes the effects of systemic…
  2026-05-11 (1,471 chars) • MD Part 1
• So now you are into what is called argument in the alternative - you just throw so much at the wall…
  2026-05-11 (3,834 chars) • MD Part 1
• A young black women could have a child before the age of 19, because of systemic racism from the…
  2026-05-11 (1,599 chars) • MD Part 1
• I don't see anything in your studies about "not due to racism". Plus your first paper says:
  2026-05-10 (1,216 chars) • MD Part 1
• Trump now has a $100,000 dollar charge for a new H1B application.
  2026-05-07 (610 chars) • MD Part 1
• Trump is giving us an opportunity we can’t afford to waste
  2026-05-06 (6,431 chars) • MD Part 1
• Online world is different from IRL
  2026-05-03 (9,719 chars) • MD Part 1 • MD Part 2
• How would a Bernie type do now?
  2026-05-03 (3,571 chars) • MD Part 1
• I'm not certain of that - look up High School Us History: Student Edition 2018 1st Edition
  2026-04-26 (1,252 chars) • MD Part 1
• The automation apocalypse is the existential event — not Trump
  2026-04-22 (14,384 chars) • MD Part 1 • MD Part 2
• As much as I dislike the boomers the article about the me movement you linked is heavily biased and…
  2026-04-16 (1,361 chars) • MD Part 1
• Explaining a system different from capitalism (not communism which is just a variant)
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• The rise of China is bullshit
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• Hmm I guess if surrounding yourself with books and schools made you an intellectual then you would…
  2026-04-01 (668 chars) • MD Part 1
• Gabriel Zucman —wrong about how much CA taxes ultra wealthy pay
  2026-04-01 (8,346 chars) • MD Part 1 • MD Part 2
• If by social animals you mean ones that participate in groups then yes dominance hierarchies…
  2026-03-31 (1,118 chars) • MD Part 1
• Dominance hierarchies are not more prevalent or more stable in animals either.
  2026-03-30 (652 chars) • MD Part 1
• I want to stress the "organized" in organized religion.
  2026-03-27 (904 chars) • MD Part 1
• The Diverse Body Politic Excuse for America’s Failures
  2026-03-25 (8,492 chars) • MD Part 1 • MD Part 2
• Linking an actual poll - for instance
  2026-03-25 (1,437 chars) • MD Part 1
• The rise of "agile" in tech is mostly myth.
  2026-03-22 (1,107 chars) • MD Part 1
• As I explained in the blog, the primary is affected by saying our only qualification for a…
  2026-03-22 (666 chars) • MD Part 1
• Well for instance Newsom is out there right now defending billionaires from a one time wealth tax…
  2026-03-21 (765 chars) • MD Part 1
• The Many Problems with Lesser Evil Voting
  2026-03-21 (4,485 chars) • MD Part 1
• Let’s get past the lie that patriarchy and rat race economy aren’t to blame for American birth rate
  2026-03-16 (5,050 chars) • MD Part 1
• The offensive assault that is the new Scrubs
  2026-03-09 (3,308 chars) • MD Part 1
• No Left and Right — just Somewhat Rational and Completely Irrational
  2026-03-09 (5,738 chars) • MD Part 1
• As sad as what you describe is (for me it’s my parents) the full situation is worse.
  2026-03-03 (863 chars) • MD Part 1
• The Rise of Glory Tech
  2026-02-27 (9,592 chars) • MD Part 1 • MD Part 2
• Critiquing billionaire fan fiction
  2026-02-19 (7,827 chars) • MD Part 1
• No here you are just straw manning people with different views than your naturalist ones.
  2026-02-06 (1,103 chars) • MD Part 1
• Here is another quote of yours from one of those articles:
  2026-02-06 (646 chars) • MD Part 1
• The novelty (in a bad way) of Trump
  2026-02-01 (4,759 chars) • MD Part 1
• Can decent people and anti-intellectuals form a society together?
  2026-01-28 (16,112 chars) • MD Part 1 • MD Part 2 • MD Part 3
• We are debating three questions simultaneously.
  2026-01-23 (1,986 chars) • MD Part 1
• Preposterous and coherent are two different things.
  2026-01-22 (840 chars) • MD Part 1
• Conservatism that meets 1 - 3 can be defined and lived - for instance the Amish are doing so.
  2026-01-21 (959 chars) • MD Part 1
• Review of No Other Choice — Spoilers
  2026-01-18 (3,745 chars) • MD Part 1
• The more egalitarian a society the more it makes progress.
  2026-01-16 (1,058 chars) • MD Part 1
• Shooting an unarmed mother of three isn’t any form of masculinity
  2026-01-12 (8,829 chars) • MD Part 1 • MD Part 2
• The Sinister Case for Conservatism
  2025-12-26 (6,922 chars) • MD Part 1
• Granting Buffet a "wasted life" is way too generous.
  2025-12-23 (811 chars) • MD Part 1
• Thanks for your very long response without a single shred of evidence that merit is not broken.
  2025-12-05 (1,123 chars) • MD Part 1
• Interesting as it turns out I'm also a software systems designer (currently founder at uclusion.com)
  2025-12-05 (891 chars) • MD Part 1
• Yes but in this article even you are not willing to name the harm.
  2025-12-04 (2,051 chars) • MD Part 1
• Democrats winning in 2028 have less than 2 years to prevent another round of authoritarianism
  2025-11-16 (6,929 chars) • MD Part 1
• Woke is alive and well — status without critique isn’t coming back
  2025-10-29 (5,717 chars) • MD Part 1
• So the claim is that the number of artisans is a smaller percentage of the population?
  2025-10-26 (607 chars) • MD Part 1
• ICE is just War on Drugs with extra fascism
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• White America is not waking up and has always been this way.
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• "California's Proposition 209 is a 1996 ballot initiative that amended the state constitution to…
  2025-10-14 (704 chars) • MD Part 1
• The problem with poverty in America
  2025-10-08 (8,590 chars) • MD Part 1 • MD Part 2
• The Patriarchy Scam
  2025-09-24 (17,114 chars) • MD Part 1 • MD Part 2 • MD Part 3
• Trump’s health is an existential threat
  2025-09-10 (3,946 chars) • MD Part 1
• The bigger issue with merit is that many and possibly most good jobs are either worth much less to…
  2025-09-10 (745 chars) • MD Part 1
• You are completely ignoring the Christian nationalists in this analysis.
  2025-09-06 (974 chars) • MD Part 1
• I don't see that article addresses any of the points I am making.
  2025-09-06 (668 chars) • MD Part 1
• Fascist history helps us understand where this country is going if we continue this way.
  2025-09-06 (741 chars) • MD Part 1
• Is a return to capitalism possible?
  2025-08-30 (3,270 chars) • MD Part 1
• There is not a lot of difference in agendas between privatize everything and destroy the civil…
  2025-08-25 (618 chars) • MD Part 1
• The collapse started with George W.
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• Strongly disagree.
  2025-08-25 (1,305 chars) • MD Part 1
• Putin’s invasion of the Ukraine was not provoked
  2025-08-20 (7,987 chars) • MD Part 1
• Why we can’t grow our way out of this
  2025-08-16 (14,810 chars) • MD Part 1 • MD Part 2
• Unfortunately I'm not very familiar with dystopian fiction of other cultures.
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• We didn't stop dreaming of a better future - dystopia is for many that better future.
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• Principle of explosion
  2025-08-02 (5,221 chars) • MD Part 1
• America already has a three party system but still no real choice
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• America’s Religious Problem
  2025-07-15 (4,742 chars) • MD Part 1
• Understanding Mamdani
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• What Democracy can learn from Silicon Valley
  2025-07-07 (3,572 chars) • MD Part 1
• Godless prosperity theology isn’t secular or better than godded
  2025-06-23 (8,720 chars) • MD Part 1 • MD Part 2
• 5 easy ways to protect our politicians from billionaire violence, now, before more happens
  2025-06-20 (6,250 chars) • MD Part 1
• The Status Quo and Switch Political Trope
  2025-06-11 (5,741 chars) • MD Part 1
• Ezra Klein is an anti-intellectual
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• Anti-intellectualism is a byproduct of meritocracy
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• "The only difference is that religions are upfront about this; humanists act like theirs is just…
  2025-05-29 (1,429 chars) • MD Part 1
• Political Change Deniers Should Reconsider
  2025-05-28 (8,526 chars) • MD Part 1 • MD Part 2
• "And whether you agree with it or not, it’s given us everything from Dante to the Declaration of…
  2025-05-28 (2,268 chars) • MD Part 1
• No actually we need education to be less tied to employment / survival and this sounds like it…
  2025-05-25 (695 chars) • MD Part 1
• Limitarianism or Fascism — Your Choice Mr. Billionaire
  2025-05-24 (4,848 chars) • MD Part 1
• They can identify as whatever they want but what they are is neoliberals and neoliberals are…
  2025-05-22 (743 chars) • MD Part 1
• Are you sure you can handle the anti-social checkout line?
  2025-05-21 (658 chars) • MD Part 1
• What Go and AI tells us about revolution
  2025-05-19 (3,538 chars) • MD Part 1
• The Vampires in Sinners are Trumpers
  2025-05-06 (6,167 chars) • MD Part 1
• The Democratic Party’s Best Strategy is to Stop Lying
  2025-05-05 (5,115 chars) • MD Part 1
• How are billionaires getting away with it?
  2025-04-28 (11,502 chars) • MD Part 1 • MD Part 2
• If top universities want to be trusted now is the time to earn it
  2025-04-21 (5,062 chars) • MD Part 1
• There is nothing wrong with STEM for developing critical thinking.
  2025-04-19 (706 chars) • MD Part 1
• It’s the stupid, stupid
  2025-04-12 (8,630 chars) • MD Part 1 • MD Part 2
• Having a billion dollars is the moral equivalent of being a slave owner
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• Why Trump Can’t Restore Andrew Jackson’s America
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• It’s time to admit this is WWIII
  2025-03-10 (6,141 chars) • MD Part 1
• Thank god for this article - I had to pay to get past the firewall just to restore my sanity.
  2025-03-06 (1,108 chars) • MD Part 1
• Why death by lack of merit cannot be part of a modern democracy
  2025-02-21 (6,615 chars) • MD Part 1
• The US constitution is stuck in beta
  2025-02-11 (13,625 chars) • MD Part 1 • MD Part 2
• Why Democracies are Stuck — The Big Man Problem
  2025-02-02 (10,508 chars) • MD Part 1 • MD Part 2
• Jon Stewart is an enabler of fascism
  2025-01-28 (3,294 chars) • MD Part 1
• The One and Only Thing MAGA Gets Right
  2025-01-05 (5,043 chars) • MD Part 1
• Where Ayn Rand went wrong — It’s the big men stupid
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• Why certain billionaires are lionized (how patriarchy works)
  2024-12-06 (9,149 chars) • MD Part 1 • MD Part 2
• Could fascism have been avoided and what can we do now
  2024-11-19 (17,996 chars) • MD Part 1 • MD Part 2 • MD Part 3
• On the election: the vision problem goes deeper than you think
  2024-11-13 (4,209 chars) • MD Part 1
• No David Brooks it’s not a college education divide, it’s a failure of leadership
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• A Spectrum of Sociopaths
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• AI and the end of understanding
  2024-10-27 (3,823 chars) • MD Part 1
• How America pays for its misogyny
  2024-09-24 (5,168 chars) • MD Part 1
• I lost my hat and sunglasses — why the rich should call off Jerome Powell
  2024-08-26 (6,946 chars) • MD Part 1
• The real appeal of American fascism
  2024-08-11 (5,635 chars) • MD Part 1
• Conservatism — a revolutionary, misguided coalition for the unpopular
  2024-07-29 (9,124 chars) • MD Part 1 • MD Part 2
• Strange goings on at the Euro Cup show you how conservatives operate
  2024-07-15 (4,124 chars) • MD Part 1
• Adam Kirsch gets transhumanism all wrong
  2024-05-22 (6,857 chars) • MD Part 1
• Conservative culture doesn’t conserve anything
  2024-05-16 (9,365 chars) • MD Part 1 • MD Part 2
• Saving politics with new religions
  2024-04-30 (2,698 chars) • MD Part 1
• What happens when technology creates real differences?
  2024-04-23 (5,716 chars) • MD Part 1
• To put your Fordist and Neoliberal in
  2024-04-22 (799 chars) • MD Part 1
• This is brilliant but I think it would be even more useful as a spectrum: The more a society relies…
  2024-04-22 (1,090 chars) • MD Part 1
• 3 Body Problem (Netflix) doesn’t understand sentience — contains 2nd episode spoilers
  2024-03-26 (4,260 chars) • MD Part 1
• Why Capitalist Corporations are Failing and What’s Next
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• Benefits of the end of certainty
  2024-02-15 (8,497 chars) • MD Part 1 • MD Part 2
• Humanity is not that simple — a response to Mitch Trachtenburg
  2024-02-10 (3,825 chars) • MD Part 1
• Humans must choose between freedom and sentience and our world hangs in the balance
  2024-02-07 (4,792 chars) • MD Part 1
• It might be humanity that is failing — a response to Michael Steinberg
  2024-02-01 (4,721 chars) • MD Part 1
• “I am useful” is the modern battle cry of human failure and suffering
  2024-01-16 (7,557 chars) • MD Part 1
• The real reason meritocracy should be discarded
  2024-01-03 (7,012 chars) • MD Part 1
• The Real Philosophical Underpinnings of Conservatism
  2023-12-09 (10,265 chars) • MD Part 1 • MD Part 2
• Even my dog is complaining about late stage capitalism now
  2023-11-03 (2,417 chars) • MD Part 1
• Blame individual humans not corporations or systems — why our media needs to admit companies and…
  2023-08-16 (5,557 chars) • MD Part 1
• Fixing climate change requires a new form of excommunication
  2023-08-13 (5,921 chars) • MD Part 1
• Original programming and climate change
  2023-08-05 (4,402 chars) • MD Part 1
• Sentience and fairness
  2023-08-01 (3,234 chars) • MD Part 1
• The Case for Ken — Barbie Doesn’t Understand Sentience
  2023-07-23 (5,444 chars) • MD Part 1
• Dr. K doesn’t understand sentience
  2023-07-17 (4,633 chars) • MD Part 1
• Interesting Video on Sentience (IE going beyond original programming)
  2023-07-15 (4,489 chars) • MD Part 1
• Sentience and Disputing the Right to Cruelty Part II — Indecency Law
  2023-07-06 (7,693 chars) • MD Part 1
• Why Sentience Matters — Disputing the Right to Cruelty
  2023-07-05 (6,110 chars) • MD Part 1
• "Now we begin to see why the intentional stance is a legitimate source of explanation, even if its…
  2023-06-26 (1,672 chars) • MD Part 1
• Why Organized Religion Doesn’t Lead to Sentience
  2023-06-22 (5,212 chars) • MD Part 1
• Corg are Sentient
  2023-06-12 (5,793 chars) • MD Part 1
• Spider-Verse has a multiverse beyond capitalism
  2023-06-08 (8,311 chars) • MD Part 1 • MD Part 2
• Search for Sentience on Earth — Identity
  2023-06-05 (3,934 chars) • MD Part 1
• Why an AI driven LieNet might be the key to human happiness / sentience
  2023-05-22 (6,733 chars) • MD Part 1
• Dear AI haters — very close, you’re only 180 degrees off
  2023-05-08 (6,892 chars) • MD Part 1
• Treatment of race on The Good Place is as you describe and maybe worse.
  2023-04-25 (1,496 chars) • MD Part 1
• The artificial pride economy and sentience — essential properties analysis
  2023-04-04 (4,486 chars) • MD Part 1
• Are BS jobs the origins of sentience on earth?
  2023-03-15 (3,842 chars) • MD Part 1
• Is the hubris epidemic a sign of sentience?
  2023-03-11 (4,821 chars) • MD Part 1
• The search for sentient life on earth — what about monks?
  2023-03-05 (3,507 chars) • MD Part 1
• Rules for Sentient Conversation
  2023-02-15 (4,170 chars) • MD Part 1
• Truthiness Explained
  2023-02-13 (4,646 chars) • MD Part 1
• The search for sentient life on earth — rules and regulations
  2023-02-06 (4,240 chars) • MD Part 1
• The search for sentient life on earth
  2023-02-05 (4,698 chars) • MD Part 1
• Are humans sentient?
  2023-02-01 (4,808 chars) • MD Part 1
• Mission Accomplished — NOT
  2023-01-31 (6,726 chars) • MD Part 1
• The economy is cancerous
  2023-01-23 (5,108 chars) • MD Part 1
• The Wide Awakes
  2023-01-14 (3,400 chars) • MD Part 1
• Why bad guys always go first
  2023-01-09 (7,136 chars) • MD Part 1
• How the isms fail us
  2022-12-20 (4,743 chars) • MD Part 1
• Heather please convince me we are good people
  2022-12-11 (6,051 chars) • MD Part 1
• The Dark Triad Traits Problem
  2022-12-04 (5,992 chars) • MD Part 1
• “Needle in a Timestack” assassinated by critics for its ideology
  2022-11-24 (4,113 chars) • MD Part 1
• Crazy is a power culture
  2022-11-14 (2,263 chars) • MD Part 1
• Beyond Capitalism / Socialism
  2022-09-06 (3,694 chars) • MD Part 1
• Debunking Star Trek / Orville Utopia
  2022-08-06 (3,744 chars) • MD Part 1
• Side effects of conquering the earth
  2022-07-24 (3,193 chars) • MD Part 1
• Fukuyama has it half right
  2022-07-24 (3,684 chars) • MD Part 1
• Through the Lens of Power Cultures
  2022-06-27 (9,246 chars) • MD Part 1 • MD Part 2
• This is a fundamental lie of corporate America.
  2019-09-21 (1,041 chars) • MD Part 1
• “In Kanban, there’s only the “stuff” to be done, and the development team should do it in the order…
  2019-08-29 (627 chars) • MD Part 1